Brad Pitt reacted to a viral story about scammers pretending to be him

The experience apparently it started in February 2023, when Anne – who was married to a wealthy entrepreneur at the time – received a message on Instagram from someone posing as Brad’s mom, Jane Etta Pitt. As the story goes, Brad’s fake mother told Anne that her son “needed a woman like her” and she soon found herself in direct contact with the movie star – or so she thought.

“At first I thought it was a fake, but I didn’t really understand what was happening to me,” recalls Anne in the French TV program “september in huit”, which is broadcast by the broadcaster TF1.

“Like a fool, I paid… Every time I doubted him, he dispelled my doubts,” Anne recalls.

During this time, Anne divorced and received compensation of €775,000. She ended up giving all that money to the fake Brad and the scammers.

Despite the scammers’ attempts to rectify the situation with an AI-generated press report about the actor’s “exclusive relationship” with Anne, she ultimately decided to end it. She later contacted the police and an investigation is currently underway.

In “Sept à huit”, it is revealed that Anne – now in financial ruin – has attempted to take her own life three times since the ordeal came to light. “Why was I chosen to be hurt like this?” – she said in the program. “These people deserve hell. We need to find these fraudsters. I’m begging you, help me find them.”

“It is terrible that fraudsters take advantage of fans’ strong connections with celebrities,” the actor’s spokesman said in a statement sent to the website ME! News January 15.

They added that the experience “is an important reminder not to respond to unwanted communications online, especially from entities that do not have a presence on social media.” For context, Brad does not have official social media accounts.

“I had forty or maybe even more times when I didn’t believe it,” she said during an appearance on a popular French YouTube channel on January 14. “I say every time that this photo is fake. (…) Of course, nothing like that is said in the series.”

Further calling out “Sept à huit,” she added: “The journalist spent two days interviewing me. And he only remembered things that he shouldn’t have remembered in order to tarnish my image. I’m just doing it to gain an audience… My whole life is a small room with a few boxes. This is all I have left.”